Forested land is increasingly encroached upon to make way for more resorts and plantations, posing a risk to the inconspicuous but highly diverse tiny species.
Nestled within the lofty Cardamom Hills, which forms part of the Western Ghats UNESCO World Heritage Site, lies the picturesque town of Munnar in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Lush green tea gardens carpet the rolling hills of the Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot, interspersed by coffee and cardamom plantations. Groves of eucalyptus, black […]
At a conference on herpetology the branch of zoology studying reptiles and amphibians at the end of the 1980s, researchers from numerous countries began to tell of disappearing and shrinking frog and toad populations. It was found not to be an isolated situation: the same phenomenon was happening in many forests and mountains […]
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Frogs and toads make up the largest and most diverse group of amphibians. The group includes thousands of species around the world, but many face extinction.